Summary

In this chapter, we talked about some important features and best practices in Java. We started our journey from the very beginning of Java releases and touched upon some important milestones for Java. We talked about important Java releases, such as Java 5 and Java 8, which kind of changed the way we code in Java by introducing features such as Generics, Autoboxing, Lambda expressions, Streams, and so on.

Then we got into details about more contemporary releases, that is, Java 9 and Java 10. Java 9 has given us modularization. We can now think of Java code in terms of various modules and choose the ones that are needed for our application. Java 9 also added JShell to its arsenal, which helps us try out and experiment with the language without actually writing and compiling classes. Java 9 added the capability of defining private methods in interfaces. In addition, we also got new features in streams, collections, arrays, and so on with Java 9.

Java 10 gives us the flexibility of declaring...